In recent years, ever-increasing demands for accountability have had an impact on all
sectors of higher education. As a result, assessment has become central to the work of
higher education institutions nationwide. ...

Focuses on 2 digital projects, King County Snapshots (2001-2003) and Olympic Peninsula Community Museum (2004-2006). Compares and contrasts the two projects. Frames the discussion inside the goals of each project. Frames ...

The ACRL Diversity Committee released the "Diversity Standards: Cultural Competency for Academic Libraries" in 2012. With strong support from our administration and clear guidelines from the standards, the University of ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the process of developing an information literacy assessment project, and to discuss key findings from the project.
Design/methodology/approach – A variety of assessment ...

As the University of Washington Libraries began writing policy for the institution's data repository currently under development, we found ourselves in a quandary: "how long is long enough?" Within the framework mandated ...

The University of Washington (UW) comprises three campuses and several off-campus facilities and is the largest comprehensive research institution in the Pacific Northwest. UW’s Seattle campus, its largest, has thirteen ...

The growth of reliance on electronic resources in libraries has led to the recognition of electronic resource management as a new problem area and specialty within librarianship and to the development of a variety of ...

There is increasing interest in the future of the UW Libraries’ online catalog that has been sparked by a number of factors. The creation of the Digital Registry and the Information Gateway provided a new means of access ...

Adelaide Hasse was one of the most prominent and certainly the most controversial of the first generation of women librarians in the era of the New Woman. Best known for her work with government publications, she also was ...

This article examines racism and the culture of Whiteness in academic libraries in three major areas of public services: space, staffing, and reference service delivery. The authors perform a critical discourse analysis, ...

At the Cataloging Policy Committee meeting in November 2002, an overview was presented on the changes in the cataloging rules that would be implemented nationally on December 1, 2002. Examples of links that would be made ...

After moving subject and class research guides from static html pages to Springshare’s LibGuides system, the University of Washington Libraries investigated how these guides and their built-in features were being understood ...

Reviews URL links from catalog records to Web resources as found in the University of Washington Libraries catalog as of October 2001. The intent of this review is to start discussion in order to set policy for what type ...

The University of Washington Libraries has been active in library assessment since 1991 and is frequently mentioned as one of the few academic libraries with a thriving culture of assessment. During the past fifteen years ...

Much of the content of the University of Washington Libraries' Information Gateway is generated from an SQL database extracted from the libraries' OPAC. The database, known locally as the Digital Registry, drives multiple ...